ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Police are conducting a probe to unmask the gunmen behind the attack that killed a militiaman and injured an 8-year-old girl in Dinas town, Zamboanga del Sur.
Chief Insp. Helen Galvez, Police Regional Office 9 (Zamboanga) information officer, disclosed that the incident happened in Purok Tula-Tula, Barangay Tarakan in Dinas at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Galvez identified the fatality as Marjon Rondina, 26, a militiaman under the Army’s 5th Infantry Battalion.
Wounded was Rosel Rondina Amodia, a niece of Marjon's. She was rushed to the Dinas Rural Health Unit and later transferred to the Margosatubig Regional Hospital.
Galvez said initial investigation showed the victims were asleep when unidentified persons, armed with high-powered firearms, arrived and opened fire, killing Marjon instantly.
She said the responding policemen recovered from the crime scene 18 empty shells of M-16 Armalite rifle and six empty shells and a deformed slug of a Caliber .45 pistol. (PNA)
Militiaman killed, niece wounded in Dinas gun attack
By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.
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